The internet, mankind's greatest achievement, is now a cesspool of AI generated bullshit stuck on a couple dozen websites. We believe this happened not as some kind of grand conspiracy but rather as a natural consequence of monetization, enshittification, and the new attention economy.
Humans need a way to defend against the deluge of delusion. To combat the cascade of contrarianism. To talk to, you know, other fucking humans instead of hallucinations.
This shit is getting worse. The arms race between SEO wankers (wielding AI to generate even more fucking bullshit) and Google has created an extremely myopic view of the internet. Billy can have the best damn information about wookie mating habits that exists, but if he's hosting it himself that shit is never going to get seen. The old internet is dead. Google search is dead.
Humans talking to humans is under attack. Social media is inundated with bots posing as humans. Whether to influence purchasing decisions, keep you "engaged" as long as possible, or destabilize the populace of rival nations, the purpose is irrelevant. Humans need a way to identify authentic human creations from AI-generated imitations, and we need it yesterday.
We believe the technology to solve this problem has existed for years. Phil Zimmerman helped us all out in 1992 when introducing the Web of Trust, only then we didn't realize that the ultimate application of tech like PGP wouldn't be to protect your communications from those who wish to spy on you (confidentiality is not the problem here), but instead to validate that what you are seeing was actually created by a human, or at least it was created by an entity that someone you trust to be a human also trusts. Or someone trusted by someone trusted by someone trusted by... and so-on to your acceptable tolerance levels.
The United States has always been pretty fucking shitty at privacy laws, but that's not what we're talking about here. We liken this more to right to repair than to privacy. The owners of the dead internet craft and enforce draconian Terms of Service prohibiting users from altering The Service to fit the needs of The User (you know, us humans). To create an ad blocker that removes ads from The Service, for example, is a violation. To craft a browser extension that removes all non-trusted posts while viewing The Service will assuredly be argued as a violation of the Terms of The Service. If you do not like The Terms, you can always go to another website; it is the internet, after all, and anyone can make a competitor to The Service.
There are wonderful organizations, such as the EFF, pushing this front.
What is un/profitable may seem to be directly at odds with the mission of the AAIAA. After all, if a user can repair The Service to prevent using their bandwidth and electricity to force feed videos from untrusted accounts then that will mean a reduction of profit and profit opportunity for The Service, wouldn't it?
We believe this is a byproduct of the market history in this space and not a reflection of the true desired state of humanity. Humans need authentic relationships. A Service that facilitates this (de-enshittifies the internet) has tremendous market potential.
How do we get the population to adopt anti-AI tools? It must be transparent and easy enough to use. How do we make people care about this issue? Well, it is arguable that we are already completely fucked on this front. It might even be a very good argument, but we will try nonetheless.
We will try because that is, in a way, what makes us human. The refusal to kowtow to our circumstances. The desire to erect cities over swampland. The sheer fucking audacity to land on a glowing orb in the sky. Our hubris is our greatest asset, and our greatest liability.
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